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Across the Sun

Photo by Thierry Legault.

Thierry Legault has done it again: a beautifully sharp solar transit image of the ISS with Atlantis attached (on the left side.) Above is a crop at full resolution; below is the full frame (with a sunspot for… scale?)

Solar Transit of ISS and Atlantis on May 22, 2010. Photo by Thierry Legault.